Improvement in fastenings for meeting-rails of sashes



s. n. ARNoLm 'Fastenings fpr 'Meefmgnailsiaf sasheys..

-Ptented June 2,0, 1871i(` UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.`l

STEPHEN D. ARNOLD, 0E NEW BETTAIN, coNNEoTIoUT, ASSIGNOE To E. a E.coEB1N,' oE SAME P LAcE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTEN'INGS FOR MEETING-RAILS SASHES.`

' Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,006, dated June 20,1871.

spring, and a latch is employed to retain the lever when the window isfastened. The latch is inclosed within a box that is slotted for thecatch ofthe lever to swing in.

In the drawing, Figure l shows Vthe lever in elevation and the boxesthat fasten to the meeting-rails in section, and Fig. 2 is a plan withpart of the lever'removed.

The box a is screwed to the meeting-rail 19,'

andreceives the hub cof the Alever d, and around this hub c is a Spring,o.,'that acts to throw the lever back out of the way when thewindowfastening is opened. A downward projection from the hub c, passinginto the quarter-circle slot 2, limits the movement of the lever cl. Thebox f is screwed to the meeting-rail g, and contains a slot, h, inwhich'the projection t' upon .the under side of the lever el moves asthe lever is swung. This projection is made as a hook to catch beneaththe plate forming the upper part of the box f so as to draw the sashestogether. The 'latch lc, isplaced withinjthe box j'. It is mounted uponthe fulcrum 3, Yand thrown up by the spring o. the projectionz'V andholds the lever d when turned to fasten the window. rlhe end of thelatch k projects fromthe box f, so that it may be depressed tounlatchthe, lever d and allow the spring vc to throw the same back inunfastening the window.

In this construction of sash-fastening the latches and springs areinclosed so that they are protected, and the boxes and lever can be mademore or less ornamental.

I claim as my invention- Y The latch 7c within the box f, and projectingtherefrom as Shown, in combination with the lever d, projection i,spring c", and box c, as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed by me this *6th day of May, A. D.

` S. D. ARNOLD. Witnesses:

CHARLES PEcx, Y WILLIS G. LAMB.

This latch catches

